Dave Chappelle recently performed at the Austin City Limits music venue next to the W Austin Hotel in downtown Austin.

The line to get into the show went on for blocks. Venue workers guided people across the street and around the courthouse, which reached all the way back to 2nd Street. The show had been sold out for days.

This was Chappelle’s sixth and final sold out show of the week, and with the added pressure of taping for a television special, Chappelle managed to destroy.

This material has been a somewhat hidden labor of Chapelle’s for the past few years. Like the big foot of stand up, rumors of him popping into late night comedy clubs to grace unsuspecting patrons with his presence had been circulating in the world of joke telling for a while. He had been secretly developing what was easily two full hours of great stand up comedy.

The topics ranged from issues of wealth and race to family life in Ohio. He even touched on the Paula Dean scandal, saying, “How is she going to say the n-word when she taught me to fry chicken?”

There were a few moments of chaos, with an unruly crowd member yelling things out and disrupting the show. Even though the audience was told numerous times not to talk since they were filming for television. One guy was actually removed from the show for continually trying to tell Chappelle that he looked good. This was quickly turned into a joke by Chappelle, condemning the women of the crowd for only getting complimented by “some dude.”

None of the hecklers were truly mean-spirited, though. All of them either yelled out “We love you” or some catchphrase coined on the infamous Chappelle show. This is in contrast to a heckler at one of Chappelle’s previous shows on this tour, where an audience member threw a banana peal at Chappelle while he was on stage.

Though Chappelle managed to transform the incident into about 15 minutes of great material, it is still disturbing to hear that someone would take the time to do that.

The night felt like a comeback in and of itself. Chappelle looked fit and his timing was better than ever. Once this television special airs, it could mark the beginning of a new chapter for Chappelle.